From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 24 18:47:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA08106566C for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:47:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 765B88FC1B for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:47:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LxQQP-0002Ov-3j for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:47:01 +0000 Received: from 78-1-171-208.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([78.1.171.208]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:47:01 +0000 Received: from ivoras by 78-1-171-208.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:47:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:46:27 +0200 Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <49F1D6A5.7070400@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig9EA252BA09B9438510A8A414" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78-1-171-208.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <49F1D6A5.7070400@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Sender: news Subject: Re: Looking for FreeBSD Update mirrors for 7.2-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:47:03 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig9EA252BA09B9438510A8A414 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Colin Percival wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > When 7.1-RELEASE came out, FreeBSD Update was overwhelmed by the burst = of > traffic as thousands of people tried to upgrade at once. I'd like to > make sure > this doesn't happen again, so I'm looking for some extra temporary mirr= or > capacity. How are the servers chosen by freebsd-update? The same question for portsnap. What I'm hinting at is: is there some geography involved? I could provide you with a server in Eastern Europe but it's very badly connected with USA. > Since I'm sure people will ask: I'm not looking for extra permanent > mirrors at > the moment. The FreeBSD Update mirroring code currently consists of "C= olin > sshes into servers and copies bits around from the shell", so until I'v= e > made > some improvements to that I don't really want to have any more mirrors = than > necessary. Hmm, if requests such as these are going to happen often, you probably should. If the front-end needs only HTTP, could you modify the backend so the updates are propagated with rsync and a self-maintained web of update servers can emerge similar to "normal" mirrors? --------------enig9EA252BA09B9438510A8A414 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknyCQMACgkQldnAQVacBcjGYACeNC7Qjkrhl4YWhLtM4dQKT54L 0hcAoN9saq/xb84Anq7wIk/p1d5z4ijI =zSi4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig9EA252BA09B9438510A8A414--